I am slow, and when I mean slow, I mean slow. I can do a 26 sec 50 with fins, but without I come in just under 1:20! I think a big part of it is just taking the fins off and doing a lot of kick sets to learn to feel the water better with my feet. I have a good breaststroke kick so I don't think my problem is an overly weak pair of legs, although they could be in better shape. Also, myankles are fairly flexible as I can point my toes and make my feet bend backwards past an even position with my shins. However, I do think that I need to loosen up my ankles when I kick. I feel like I get more out of my kick for those brief moments when I allow my ankles to snap back and forth with my kick. I think I actually need to relax more to kick faster as weird as that sounds.
I suppose the answer to my question is that I simply need to take of the fins and do kick set after kick set until I learn to feel the water better with my feet and become more efficient.
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Hello all, I am new to this site. I am 6-2, 185lb 26yo male, with a background in rowing, track, and recreational swimming. As a recent project sprint-running project, I ran a 400m dash in 49.9, so I consider myself pretty athletic.
However, I am a relatively awful swimmer and an even worse kicker. I'd like to try swimming 3 or 4 times a week as a side project (I am a busy grad student) for the next month or two, doing the sprint kick sets in this thread and see where it takes me. If I can get to swimming a 50yd free in, say, under 23 seconds, I'd be willing to jump in some meets. Right now I'm probably around 27s.
8/16/11:
-23.5s streamline flutter kick ("SFK"?) from push
-25.0s flutter kick with board from push
-13.5s sprint freestyle from push
A few questions:
-how much/for how long can one improve doing only 3 or 4 pool workouts a week
-how much does a 1s improvement in 25yd kick time translate into improvement in swimming speed?
Thanks!
Hello all, I am new to this site. I am 6-2, 185lb 26yo male, with a background in rowing, track, and recreational swimming. As a recent project sprint-running project, I ran a 400m dash in 49.9, so I consider myself pretty athletic.
However, I am a relatively awful swimmer and an even worse kicker. I'd like to try swimming 3 or 4 times a week as a side project (I am a busy grad student) for the next month or two, doing the sprint kick sets in this thread and see where it takes me. If I can get to swimming a 50yd free in, say, under 23 seconds, I'd be willing to jump in some meets. Right now I'm probably around 27s.
8/16/11:
-23.5s streamline flutter kick ("SFK"?) from push
-25.0s flutter kick with board from push
-13.5s sprint freestyle from push
A few questions:
-how much/for how long can one improve doing only 3 or 4 pool workouts a week
-how much does a 1s improvement in 25yd kick time translate into improvement in swimming speed?
Thanks!
